Drawer-pull



(No Model.)

0. L. DAYTON.

DRAWER PULL.

No. 398,238. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

tln'rrnn CHARLES l1. DAYTON, ()l MERIDEN, (ONNEUPICITT.

DRAWER PULL.

SFECIFIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,288, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed December 24, 1888. Serial No. 294,533. (No model) To aZZ whom it may concern: Be it known thatI, CHARLES L. DAYTON, of Mcriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Drawer-Pulls; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a front view of: the drawermll complete; l ig. 2, a front view of the plate; l ig. 3, a vertical section through the plate on line rr 1',- F 4,:1 vertical section through the plate on line i y; Fig. 5, a longitudinal central section through the plate before punching for the sockets; Fig. 6, a longitudinal central section showing the socket-eyes attached to the plate; Fig. 7, the socket-eye detached; Fig. 9,51 transverse section through one of the socket p1o 'e..ions, showing" the eye in place; liigs. 5i and fill, modifications.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of drawer-pulls in which a metal base is fitted to be attached to the drawerfront, the handle being of U shape, the two ends of the handle forming pivots hung in sockets to the base, the ol'iject of the invention being a simple and cheap mimstruction for combining the sockets with the base, yet one which may be made highly ornamental; and the invention consists in the construction,

as hereinafter described, and particularly rccited in the claim.

A represents the base, which is adapted to rest against the front of the drawer. It is best made from sheet metal and may be of any desirable outline and its surface ornamen ted in any desi ral )le manner. In the plat e, at points correslioiulinc; to the position in the sockets, outward projections a a are formed by prod ucin a correspond in depression from the inside outward, seen in Fig. This depression produces a recess, Z), upon the inside, and the-outside presents an on tline eor- 5 responding to the desired shape for the soelc ets in which the pivots or ends of the handles are to be hung. Preferably a longitudinal panel like projection, (Z, i also formed in the plate between the sockets, as seen in Figs. 2

and 4-. The sockets proper are made from wire, as seen in Fig. 7, in the form of screweyes, the opening e through the eye f corre sponding substantially to the pivot on the end of the handle, and the outlines of the eyes correspond to the recesses b, and so that the eye portion may be set within the recesses on the inside of the plate, as seen in Figs. 6 and 8. Then the metal of the projections of the plate is punched inward, so to turn the metal into the opening in the eye, as seen in Fig. 6, thus forming sockets g, into which the pivot ends of the handle may be placed, at the same timcfirmlyunitin theplate to the eyes. As an additional security for the eye in the plate, the metal which forms the eyerecess near the hodyof the plate and inside the bend of the eye is forced inward, indicated at 71 in Fig. 8, so as to close the surrounding metal of the plate around the inner side of the bend of the eye; but with the socket-eyes made from round wire either of the methods of closing the metal around the eye may be employed and afford suiiicicnt connection between the eye and plate; yet I prefer to employ both closing or unlocking devices.

Instead of making the socket I of round wire, as thus far described, it may to advantage be made of half-round wire doubled, as seen in Fig. 9, the doubled shank forming a complete cylinder and screw-threaded the same as the solid shank. This produces a better or more extended bearii'lg in the eye for the pivot than the fUllrTOLlllLl. wire. In this case the turning of the metal intothe eye maybe omitted, the metal being punched corresponding to the eye, as represented in Fig. 10, the eye being held in place by closing the metal around the bend, as at 71 71, Fig. 8. The opening into the eye may be made from the outside inward, or from the inside out ward, according to the style of handle requiredthat is to say, if the handle is to be hung upon the outside, as represented in Fig. 1, then the punchingwill be from the out side inward. If, on the contrary, the pivots are to be introduced from the inside of the socket, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 1, then the punching will be upon the inside; or the mnching may be from both inside and outside, as indicated. in broken lines, Fig. 6.

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The eye thus introduced and secured makes a strong socket, and one which in use produces no strain upon the plate, the screw of the shanks passin through the drawer-tron t and provided with nuts upon the inside in the ,usual manner.

The handle may be of anyol' the usual constructions. To introduce the handle, say, from the outside, the legs are sprung apart, so as to pass over the sockets and then the pivots closed into the sockets.

This construction makes a very cheap d rawer-pu11,yet one which may be highly ornamental.

I claim The herein-described drawer-pull, consisting of the plate A, made from sheet metal,

constructed with recesses Z2 from the inside outward, producing corresponding projections a upon the outside, combined with socketeyes having a shank projecting therefrom, the said eyes of a shape corresponding to the recesses in the plate and set into said recesses, the metal of the plate closed upon the said eyes as a means for securing the said eyes to the plate, and with a U-shaped handle having pivots on the ends of its legs extending through the opening in the said projections into the eyes, substantially as described.

CHARLES L. DAYTON.

Witnesses i FRED C. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

